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A daily planner built for ADHD brains, by one of them

You're not the problem. Your to-do list is.

Actto is a daily planner that keeps today's list short. You pick up to three priorities for the day, and it works around the time and energy you actually have. Each day gets easier to get through, and life gets easier to keep up with.

Say it or type it. It's out of your head. By Friday there are eleven, and no order. Tell it how much energy you have, and how long. Actto picks the three that fit. You don't have to choose. Then it tidies them up, with the details filled in. That's today. Small enough to finish, and nothing left to decide. Today's three: Finish the deck for Thursday, Cancel the trial before Friday, Text mom back.

Is this you?

  • Half of today is yesterday's list, moved. You didn't fail to do it. There was never time.
  • You open the list, see forty things, and close the list.
  • You plan the whole week into Monday, then do none of it.
  • Every productivity app you've downloaded is still on your phone. Unopened.

Then Actto was built for you. Not adapted from an app for everyone else.

A Monday now

You write down eleven things.

By 2pm you've done two, and neither was important.

Nine roll into Tuesday. Tuesday already had six of its own.

You close it and don't open it again.

A Monday with Actto

You pick three priorities. It won't let you add a fourth.

At 2pm you're flat, so you tell it: low energy, twenty minutes. It offers the tasks that fit, and you pick one.

What you didn't get to is still there in the morning, in the same slot. Nothing is moved for you and nothing is marked late. When you want the slot back, you send it to someday yourself.

You finish the one you picked, and it pays 15 points. Points buy the rewards you wrote yourself, and the coffee on your list costs 60.

Everything you're carrying

reply to that email from Tuesdaybook the dentistcancel the trial before Fridaytext mom backfind the passportrenew the car insurancebuy a birthday cardcall about the tapthe thing I forgotwash the car

Get it out of your head. Sorting it is the app's job, not yours.

Four steps, from a thought in your head to today's three priorities.

  1. 01

    Catch

    Get it out of your head

    One tap. No fields. Type it or say it. It waits in your brain dump until you sort it, and it never nags you to.

  2. 02

    Choose

    Say how much energy you have

    Tell it your energy and how long you have. Three tasks that fit come back, with no backlog to scroll past.

  3. 03

    Cap

    Three priorities, and no fourth

    A day with ten priorities has none. Actto also adds up whether the three you chose fit the hours you actually have.

  4. 04

    Collect

    Earn points for finishing

    Finishing a task earns points. Points buy rewards you picked yourself.

Energy you've got
Time you've got

3 tasks that fit

Book the dentist

Low ShortHealth
+20

Reply to the accountant

Low ShortAdmin
+20

Text Marta about Saturday

Low ShortLife
+15

5 tasks need more energy than low, or take longer than 30 minutes, so they are out of sight. One more task fits too, waiting behind today's three, because you can only pick three priorities a day.

"What can I do right now?"

Actto asks you two questions: how much energy you have, and how many minutes. Answer both and you get three tasks that fit them. Three is a short enough list to choose from.

Energy is not the same as time. An hour when you are exhausted is not the same as an hour first thing in the morning, and a calendar cannot tell the difference. Everything else stays out of sight until you want it. Nothing is deleted and nothing is marked late.

Rewards you choose, at prices you set.

Your brain wants the payoff now, so Actto gives you one. You write the list of rewards yourself and you decide what each one costs. Ten minutes of doing nothing. A good coffee. A day off. The trip you keep putting off.

Finishing a task earns you points. You spend those points on a reward. Points never expire, and Actto never takes them back, whatever kind of day you had.

Someone working at a laptop beside a timer, with a progress ring filling up
  • Micro

    Ten minutes of doing absolutely nothing

    60
  • Big

    A day off. No admin, no guilt

    750
  • Legendary

    The trip

    2,000

Three tasks and a couple of habits is about 120 points. That is enough for the first reward on this list, tonight.

It also tells you when to stop working.

Starting is not the only hard part. Stopping is often harder, and rest turns into the thing you never feel you have earned. Here rest has a price, and you have already paid it.

Most people save their points and never spend them. When that happens, Actto tells you to go and take the reward.

Andrii, who built Actto and uses it every day

I built the first version for myself, in Notion, because nothing else worked for more than a few weeks.

Every app I tried wanted a perfect week planned out on Monday. By Wednesday I had given up and moved to a new one. That went on for years. Each time, I believed a little less that any of these apps were built for someone like me.

So I stopped trying to fix myself and built the thing that asks how much energy I actually have today.

Andrii has ADHD. He runs his whole life in Actto now, and it keeps him going on the hard days without making him feel guilty about them.

Built for the day you don't open it.

Miss a day and you keep every point you earned. No habit turns red. Your streak only restarts if you have not saved up enough points to cover the day. Anything you dated and missed is still there in one list, and nothing was deleted or moved for you. You have quit apps before because coming back felt like work. You had to fix the system before you could use it again.

Coming back here is just opening it.

Three real weeks

Two weeks ago

5 of 7

Last week: didn't open it once. Nothing piled up.

This week

5 of 7

Your habits are exactly where you left them. The streak starts again.

A three week calendar. Five of seven days were done two weeks ago, none at all last week, and five of seven this week. Nothing on the calendar is marked as failed or overdue, and there is no backlog to clear. The streak starts again after the week away.

You've probably tried some of these.

Your day is free. Goals and projects are Plus.

Free

$0

Try it and see if it clicks.

  • Up to three priorities a day, and no fourth
  • Tasks filtered by the energy and the time you have
  • A meter that adds your plan up against your hours
  • Three habits and three rewards
  • Somewhere to put every thought, with no form to fill in

You do not have to choose now. Every account starts with 14 days of Plus, so you can try goals, projects and the AI first.

Plus

14 days free
$6/month

Normally $72 a year. $48 a year, which is 4 months free.

Everything in Free, plus goals, projects, and an AI that picks your day and tidies your brain dump.

  • Areas, goals and projects, so big things break into tasks
  • Patterns, so you can see where your hours actually went
  • As many habits and rewards as you want
  • An AI that picks your day and says why it picked each one
  • Planning by the week or the month, and a tidy-up for the brain dump

No card. It turns into Free on its own if you do nothing.

See everything in Plus

GoalsProjectsThe AI planner

Lifetime

Pay once

$149once

4 years of Plus costs $192. This costs $149, once.

For anyone who is done adding another monthly charge to the pile.

Pay once and keep it. Everything in Plus, except the AI.

  • Areas, goals and projects, so big things break into tasks
  • Patterns, so you can see where your hours actually went
  • As many habits and rewards as you want
  • Nothing to renew, and no price that can go up on you later

Start free first. You can move to Lifetime whenever you like.

Frequently asked questions

It might not be. But the three things that usually kill it are setup you never finish, a backlog that guilts you, and a streak that punishes one bad day. Those are the three this was built against. It's free, and there's a sixty-second walkthrough on the way in, so finding out costs you about a minute.
Free is real, and it is not a countdown. Writing things down, picking your three for the day, filtering them by your energy and adding up your hours all cost nothing, along with three habits and three rewards. Every account also starts with 14 days of Plus, so you can see the rest before you decide. Plus adds goals and projects, as many habits and rewards as you want, and an AI that picks the day for you.
No, and on the free plan you don't get it at all. The capacity meter does the same math with no AI involved, and it costs nothing. The AI is for the days when choosing between three things is still too much, which is why it sits behind the paid tier.
No. Actto is a productivity app built for how ADHD brains work. It isn't treatment and it isn't a substitute for care.
Not yet, and you may not need one. Actto runs in your browser and works properly on a phone. Put it on your home screen and it opens like any other app, with nothing to download and nothing to update. Settings has a short guide that works out what you are reading this on and shows the right steps for it, and on Android and desktop it can install itself in one tap.
Everything's still there, exactly as you left it. Your points do not decay and none are removed. Anything you had given a date is gathered in one list. Pick a couple back up and push the rest out in one go.
Yes, whenever you want. All Tasks downloads your tasks as a CSV file, and there's a separate one for everything you've finished. It's an ordinary spreadsheet file that opens anywhere.

Give it one day.

Add the tasks that are on your mind. Actto shows you the ones that fit the energy you have and keeps everything else out of sight.